The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) and the Ministry of Education (MOE)
have jointly selected 56 elementary, junior high, and high schools as winners of the "Health Promoting Schools Feature Award Competition." Through innovative teaching, environmental improvements, and community partnerships, the winning schools have dedicated themselves to enhancing student health. Chao-Chun Wu, Director-General of the Health Promotion Administration (HPA), stated that he hopes this will encourage more schools to deepen their innovative efforts, helping to instill healthy habits from a young age.
This year, the MOHW and MOE continued their collaboration on the "Health Promoting Schools Feature Award Competition," using the eight standards of the "Third Generation Health Promoting Schools" model for evaluation. These standards are: (1) Government resources and policies, (2) School policies toward whole-school approach, (3) School community and stakeholder engagement, (4) School and community partnerships, (5) School curriculum incorporates health and wellbeing, (6) School physical environment, (7) School social-emotional environment, and (8) School health services and resources. This model seeks to select schools that demonstrate a holistic, school-wide, community-wide, and government-level approach to cooperation.
The awards were divided into "Excellence Awards" (Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Promotion award) and "Feature Awards" (Community Partner, Innovative Curriculum, Environmental Support, and Health Services award), with the Feature Awards being judged in separate group for elementary and junior/senior high schools. A total of 132 schools from 21 counties and cities registered, with 56 schools ultimately selected for the honor.
On Tuesday, June 24, the MOHW and MOE co-hosted an awards ceremony at the NTUH International Convention Center to recognize the winning schools and their respective city/county education and health bureaus from 15 counties and cities. The event aimed to encourage the committed efforts of schools and local governments in promoting the health of students.
Excellence Award: Exemplary Models for a Health-Conscious Campus
The Excellence Award was based on three key performance indicators from the 2023-2024 academic year: the percentage of students with a healthy weight, the rate of uncorrected poor vision, and the rate of untreated dental cavities in specific grades. Schools also had to demonstrate excellent performance in various health strategies. A total of 3 Gold, 5 Silver, 12 Bronze, and 12 Promotion Awards were given. The following are highlights of the winning schools:
Feature Award: Spotlighting Innovative and Creative Health Initiatives
The Feature Award recognizes innovation and creativity, with 6 winners in each of the four awards: Community Partner, Innovative Curriculum, Environmental Support, and Health Services, for a total of 24 winning schools.
I. Community Partner Award
Schools that earned this award demonstrated a clear history of forming alliances with their communities, integrating local cultural elements, and actively bringing in community resources. These schools also share their health promotion strategies back with the community, maintaining a mutually beneficial partnership. Highlights include:
1. Dujia Elementary School in Tainan City: This school leverages local culture to create a health promotion hub. In partnership with the Quanta Education Foundation, they launched the "Silver-and-Plus School" program, inviting elders to share childhood stories, which promotes intergenerational exchange.
2. Yilan Junior High School in Yilan County: The school collaborates with medical institutions, foundations, and businesses to establish mutually beneficial partnerships. For instance, students advocate for healthy eating at local shops, and art students create portraits of elderly residents in nursing homes, using art to express care for the elderly.
II. Innovative Curriculum Award
This award is for schools that have developed innovative, interdisciplinary courses that use new technologies and diverse teaching strategies to increase students' opportunities to gain health knowledge and take health-related action. Highlights include:
This award recognizes schools that creatively build a safe and sustainable, health-supportive environment, fostering a friendly campus atmosphere. They strengthen interpersonal networks among teachers, students, and parents to cultivate students' self-esteem and positive life attitudes. Highlights include:
This award is for schools that actively combine internal and community-based health resources to provide comprehensive health services tailored to the needs of teachers and students. They also use pre- and post-intervention data to evaluate outcomes and adjust strategies. Highlights include:
1. Ruiping Elementary School in New Taipei City: With the guiding principle "Eat Smart, Move Happy" the school established a "Healthy Sprout Service Station" for students with unhealthy body weights. It combines nutrition education with movement classes to help students develop healthy habits and improve their self-management abilities.
2. National Tainan First Senior High School: Through the analysis of long-term data from its freshman health checkups, the school found that BMI (Body Mass Index) and uric acid levels can affect kidney function in adolescents. This led to a focus on healthy weight management and the creation of a "Healthy Weight Let's Go" class, which provides case tracking and demonstrates a scientific approach to health promotion.
Under the joint leadership of the MOHW and the MOE, the concept of health promotion is becoming deeply rooted in schools. This event is expected to encourage more schools to create diverse and inclusive campus environments based on their unique characteristics, prioritize the health needs of all faculty, staff, and students, and work together to cultivate healthy lifestyles, starting from a young age, so that health becomes a lifelong habit.
🌐 Source: Health Promotion Administration News Release: https://health99.hpa.gov.tw/news/19858
have jointly selected 56 elementary, junior high, and high schools as winners of the "Health Promoting Schools Feature Award Competition." Through innovative teaching, environmental improvements, and community partnerships, the winning schools have dedicated themselves to enhancing student health. Chao-Chun Wu, Director-General of the Health Promotion Administration (HPA), stated that he hopes this will encourage more schools to deepen their innovative efforts, helping to instill healthy habits from a young age.
This year, the MOHW and MOE continued their collaboration on the "Health Promoting Schools Feature Award Competition," using the eight standards of the "Third Generation Health Promoting Schools" model for evaluation. These standards are: (1) Government resources and policies, (2) School policies toward whole-school approach, (3) School community and stakeholder engagement, (4) School and community partnerships, (5) School curriculum incorporates health and wellbeing, (6) School physical environment, (7) School social-emotional environment, and (8) School health services and resources. This model seeks to select schools that demonstrate a holistic, school-wide, community-wide, and government-level approach to cooperation.
The awards were divided into "Excellence Awards" (Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Promotion award) and "Feature Awards" (Community Partner, Innovative Curriculum, Environmental Support, and Health Services award), with the Feature Awards being judged in separate group for elementary and junior/senior high schools. A total of 132 schools from 21 counties and cities registered, with 56 schools ultimately selected for the honor.
On Tuesday, June 24, the MOHW and MOE co-hosted an awards ceremony at the NTUH International Convention Center to recognize the winning schools and their respective city/county education and health bureaus from 15 counties and cities. The event aimed to encourage the committed efforts of schools and local governments in promoting the health of students.
Excellence Award: Exemplary Models for a Health-Conscious Campus
The Excellence Award was based on three key performance indicators from the 2023-2024 academic year: the percentage of students with a healthy weight, the rate of uncorrected poor vision, and the rate of untreated dental cavities in specific grades. Schools also had to demonstrate excellent performance in various health strategies. A total of 3 Gold, 5 Silver, 12 Bronze, and 12 Promotion Awards were given. The following are highlights of the winning schools:
1. Shuangfeng Elementary School in New Taipei City: The principal led the school and parent volunteers to show a spirit of full-team commitment. The school leveraged its unique natural environment to promote agricultural and mountain education. A notable "Breakfast Week" activity invited students and parents to buy and prepare nutritious breakfast together, cultivating proper eating habits and reducing food waste, which lays the foundation for lifelong healthy eating.
2. Chiaotou Elementary School in Changhua County: With a vision of "Holistic Character, Healthy Vitality, Diverse Learning," the principal and the administrative and teaching teams implemented a health promotion plan by integrating health into school-based reading and SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) curricula. By creating a mutually beneficial environment for families, schools, and the community, they have deeply integrated the SH150 program (S for Sport, H for Health, 150 for 150 minutes of weekly sports activities) to enhance students' health, character, and life skills.
3. Chuengjih Elementary School in Pingtung County: The core philosophy of this school's health promotion is "Spring Warmth, Blossoming Health." Through a curriculum that combines indigenous education with outdoor learning and the collaboration of teachers, students, parents, and the community, health is naturally integrated into lessons and daily life. For example, they developed an indigenous-based curriculum and created a "Love Farm" to grow traditional crops and provide cooking experiences, fostering students' health and food literacy.
2. Chiaotou Elementary School in Changhua County: With a vision of "Holistic Character, Healthy Vitality, Diverse Learning," the principal and the administrative and teaching teams implemented a health promotion plan by integrating health into school-based reading and SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) curricula. By creating a mutually beneficial environment for families, schools, and the community, they have deeply integrated the SH150 program (S for Sport, H for Health, 150 for 150 minutes of weekly sports activities) to enhance students' health, character, and life skills.
3. Chuengjih Elementary School in Pingtung County: The core philosophy of this school's health promotion is "Spring Warmth, Blossoming Health." Through a curriculum that combines indigenous education with outdoor learning and the collaboration of teachers, students, parents, and the community, health is naturally integrated into lessons and daily life. For example, they developed an indigenous-based curriculum and created a "Love Farm" to grow traditional crops and provide cooking experiences, fostering students' health and food literacy.
Feature Award: Spotlighting Innovative and Creative Health Initiatives
The Feature Award recognizes innovation and creativity, with 6 winners in each of the four awards: Community Partner, Innovative Curriculum, Environmental Support, and Health Services, for a total of 24 winning schools.
I. Community Partner Award
Schools that earned this award demonstrated a clear history of forming alliances with their communities, integrating local cultural elements, and actively bringing in community resources. These schools also share their health promotion strategies back with the community, maintaining a mutually beneficial partnership. Highlights include:
1. Dujia Elementary School in Tainan City: This school leverages local culture to create a health promotion hub. In partnership with the Quanta Education Foundation, they launched the "Silver-and-Plus School" program, inviting elders to share childhood stories, which promotes intergenerational exchange.
2. Yilan Junior High School in Yilan County: The school collaborates with medical institutions, foundations, and businesses to establish mutually beneficial partnerships. For instance, students advocate for healthy eating at local shops, and art students create portraits of elderly residents in nursing homes, using art to express care for the elderly.
This award is for schools that have developed innovative, interdisciplinary courses that use new technologies and diverse teaching strategies to increase students' opportunities to gain health knowledge and take health-related action. Highlights include:
1. Chajiao Forest Experimental Elementary School in New Taipei City: The school developed an interdisciplinary curriculum that combines positive psychology and physical literacy. Using four teaching strategies—gamification, experiential learning, awareness-oriented, and grit-oriented—and activities like martial arts, cooking, biking, and stream tracing, the school helps students develop healthy habits and self-management skills.
2. Fusing Junior High School in Tainan City: The school focused on National Health Insurance and proper medication use, creating an interdisciplinary curriculum that combines reading and technological literacy. In their "Young and Old Together" series, students designed a smart pillbox and a medication tracking app to help the elderly, while also improving their own health literacy and practical skills.
III. Environmental Support Award2. Fusing Junior High School in Tainan City: The school focused on National Health Insurance and proper medication use, creating an interdisciplinary curriculum that combines reading and technological literacy. In their "Young and Old Together" series, students designed a smart pillbox and a medication tracking app to help the elderly, while also improving their own health literacy and practical skills.
This award recognizes schools that creatively build a safe and sustainable, health-supportive environment, fostering a friendly campus atmosphere. They strengthen interpersonal networks among teachers, students, and parents to cultivate students' self-esteem and positive life attitudes. Highlights include:
1. Bihua Elementary School in New Taipei City: The school actively promotes a sustainable campus by installing solar panels, a rainwater harvesting system, a green roof for agricultural education, and holding battery recycling competitions and tree planting/beach cleanup events.
2. Guohua Junior High School in Yilan County: The school integrates student creations into the campus environment. For example, student-designed flags with anti-tobacco/betel nut slogans are used for traffic duty, embedding health concepts into daily routines and deepening the anti-smoking and betel nut culture on campus.
IV. Health Services Award2. Guohua Junior High School in Yilan County: The school integrates student creations into the campus environment. For example, student-designed flags with anti-tobacco/betel nut slogans are used for traffic duty, embedding health concepts into daily routines and deepening the anti-smoking and betel nut culture on campus.
This award is for schools that actively combine internal and community-based health resources to provide comprehensive health services tailored to the needs of teachers and students. They also use pre- and post-intervention data to evaluate outcomes and adjust strategies. Highlights include:
1. Ruiping Elementary School in New Taipei City: With the guiding principle "Eat Smart, Move Happy" the school established a "Healthy Sprout Service Station" for students with unhealthy body weights. It combines nutrition education with movement classes to help students develop healthy habits and improve their self-management abilities.
2. National Tainan First Senior High School: Through the analysis of long-term data from its freshman health checkups, the school found that BMI (Body Mass Index) and uric acid levels can affect kidney function in adolescents. This led to a focus on healthy weight management and the creation of a "Healthy Weight Let's Go" class, which provides case tracking and demonstrates a scientific approach to health promotion.
Under the joint leadership of the MOHW and the MOE, the concept of health promotion is becoming deeply rooted in schools. This event is expected to encourage more schools to create diverse and inclusive campus environments based on their unique characteristics, prioritize the health needs of all faculty, staff, and students, and work together to cultivate healthy lifestyles, starting from a young age, so that health becomes a lifelong habit.
🌐 Source: Health Promotion Administration News Release: https://health99.hpa.gov.tw/news/19858
